List of alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford explained

A list of alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford.

The list includes alumni associated with the Delegacy for Unattached Students, the Delegacy for Non-Collegiate Students and St Catherine's Society prior to the official founding of the college.

Academics

• R. J. Q. Adams – American historian who specializes in the history of Great Britain
• Christopher Bishop – Chief Research Scientist at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, and Chair of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh
• Tim Brighouse – educationist, previously Schools Commissioner for London
• Ben Britton - materials scientist and engineer
• Andrew Stewart Coats - cardiologist
• John Cornforth – 1975 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
• Denis Cosgrove – former Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles
• Chris Greening - biochemist and microbiologist
• Carl Marci – American neuroscientist
• Mark Miodownik – materials scientist, engineer, broadcaster
• Seamus Perry - lecturer in English Literature
• Gene Sharp – leading theoretician on nonviolent struggle
• John Vane – 1992 Nobel Laureate in Medicine
• Rudolf Vleeskruijer – founder of the English Institute of the University of Utrecht
• John E. Walker – 1997 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
• Paul Wilmott – British mathematician and quantitative analyst
• David Yates – previous Warden of Robinson College, Cambridge

Public life

• Benazir Bhutto – Pakistani politician, elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the College 1989^[1]
• John Birt – former Director-General of the BBC
• Simon Bridges - New Zealand politician, previously Leader of the Opposition (National Party)
• Christian Cole - barrister, first black graduate of the University of Oxford
• Alexander Curtis - youngest mayor in the United Kingdom
• Barun De – historian; formerly Chairman, West Bengal Heritage Commission
• Clark Kent Ervin – first Inspector General of the US Department of Homeland Security
• Timothy Garden, Baron Garden – Liberal Democrat
• Farooq Leghari – former President of Pakistan
• Peter Mandelson – architect of "New Labour", several times a UK Cabinet minister, and Trade Commissioner in the Barroso Commission 2004–2008
• Hiren Mukherjee – Member of Parliament, Calcutta North East, 1952–77
• Richard Newby, Baron Newby – Liberal Democrat politician
• Bob Peirce – diplomat
• Yannis Stournaras - Governor of the Bank of Greece
• H. S. Suhrawardy – first Bengali Prime Minister of Pakistan
• Eric Williams – Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago

Religion

• Alan Chesters – Church of England Bishop of Blackburn
• Audrey Elkington – Archdeacon of Bodmin

Writers

• Clive Barnes – theatre critic
• Mark Beech – writer and broadcaster, rock critic
• Michael Billington – critic, author and radio presenter
• Euros Bowen – Welsh poet
• Jeremy Duns – British author
• Adam Foulds – novelist and poet
• Joseph Heller – American author and playwright; Catch-22
• Ernest Hilbert – American poet, book critic, opera librettist, and editor
• Sam Llewellyn – author
• Chris Maslanka – writer and broadcaster
• David Rudkin – playwright
• Paul Spike – author, editor and journalist
• Maurice Wiggin - journalist and author
• Simon Winchester – author and historian; The Surgeon of Crowthorne; The Map that Changed the World
• Jeanette Winterson – author of books including Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Sexing the Cherry, Written on the Body, The World and Other Places
• P. C. Wren – novelist, author of Beau Geste

Performing arts

• Alice Eve – actress
• Emilia Fox – actress
• Grant Gee – film director, best known for the documentary Meeting People is Easy
• Guthrie Govan - musician
• Richard Herring – comedian
• Olly Mann – podcaster and broadcaster, co-creator of the podcast Answer Me This!
• James Marsh - film director
• George Peck – theatre director, founder of the Oxford School of Drama
• Tom Phillips – artist and Royal Academician
• Alex Polizzi – television presenter
• Benjamin Ross – film director
• Mark Simpson – clarinetist, BBC Young Musician of the Year 2006, and BBC Young Composer of the Year 2006
• Ben Willbond - actor, star of Horrible Histories, Yonderland and Ghosts
• Emily Woof – actress
• Helen Zaltzman – podcaster, co-creator of the podcast Answer Me This!

Business

• Victor Blank – Chairman of Lloyds TSB
• Hans-Paul Burkner – Chairman of The Boston Consulting Group
• J. Paul Getty – American mogul and philanthropist^[2]

Sports

• Phil de Glanville – former England rugby captain
• David Hemery – Olympic gold medallist in athletics
  • Christopher Liwski – American rower and 2005 Oxford Blue Matthew Pinsent – Quadruple Olympic gold medallist in rowing
• Colin Smith – British rower and three time Oxford Blue
• Andrew Triggs Hodge- British rower, double Olympic gold medallist
• Derek Wyatt – rugby international, former MP and founder, Oxford Internet Institute

Notes and References

1. Web site: Note on St Catz web site . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090113143208/http://www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/news_archive_pages/2007/BenazirBhutto.htm . 2009-01-13 .
2. Book: Oxford : a cultural and literary companion. 1-902669-05-3. 114. David Horan.. 1999. Signal. Oxford.